Evander M. Law

Evander McIver Law (7 August 1836-31 October 1920) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Evander McIver Law was born in Darlington, South Carolina in 1836, and he graduated from the South Carolina Military Academy in 1856 before becoming a history professor at Kings Mountain Military Academy and the founder of a military high school in Tuskegee, Alabama. Law joined the Confederate States Army at the start of the American Civil War in 1861, and he lost the use of his left arm after being wounded while commanding a regiment at Bull Run. Law came to lead an Alabama brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia in late 1861, and he fought in the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, at Antietam, and at the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. Law assumed temporary division command after John Bell Hood was wounded in battle, and he repelled Judson Kilpatrick's suicidal cavalry charge against his lines. After the battle, he was sent to the Western Theater, continuing to serve in Hood's division at the Battle of Chickamauga, and he was later arrested for insubordination. In 1864, he was restored to command during the Overland Campaign, and he was injured in the left eye and the skull at Cold Harbor. After the Siege of Petersburg in 1865, he was transferred to Wade Hampton's cavalry corps in South Carolina, and the war ended before his promotion to Major-General could be confirmed. He would work at the South Florida Military College and at other schools after the war, and he died in 1920 at the age of 84, the last Confederate Major-General.